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Yi Nan followed the tribe's people to Huaihuang for trading with a large number of cattle, horses and furs. He hid his identity and arrived at Huaihuang as a small manager in a caravan. Then he stayed in Huaihuang for half a year. During this half year, he comprehensively observed Huaihuang, observed this emerging force, and observed this emerging force that repeatedly defeated the more with few and defeated the strong with weak.

In the past six months, he has learned a lot and gained a lot.

"Then what have you learned? How to eat knife and fork and meat?" Yi Shibo did not agree with his son's words.

"Father, do you remember a Han military book you sent me before?"

"Sun Tzu's Art of War, when you are an adult, I will give you one of the gifts." Yi Shibo said, many years have passed since his son's coming-of-age ceremony.

"That's right, Sun Tzu once said in the Art of War that only by knowing oneself and one's enemy can one be able to fight without delay. To defeat an enemy, the best way is to understand him, even learn his strengths, then know his weaknesses, and finally defeat him. Huaihuang's rise so fast is by no means accidental. It is not an accident that he can defeat our Tieler's troops repeatedly. We should face the enemy. To despise the enemy is to despise ourselves."

Yi Shibo was silent, and his son's words really made some sense.

"Father, Shi Jian wanted to compete with his father for the position of commander of the various tribes this time, why was he defeated in the end?" Yi Nan asked with a smile.

"Because of the sudden reward from the south, the troops of the vanguards who had sent to the south were previously, because the Weihe tribe underestimated the enemy, they themselves were ambushed by the Han people. The next three thousand troops were attacked again when they were chasing the Han people, resulting in the thousands of troops who went south in advance, losing half of them. Thousands of cavalry were destroyed, but even the roots of the Han people were not even pulled. The defeat of the vanguards suffered a great loss, and all the tribes blamed the Weihe people, so Shi Jian failed to become the leader of the alliance in the end." Yi Shibo said, although in fact, the defeat of the vanguards was not only the responsibility of the Weihe people. All tribes underestimated the enemy like the Weihe people, and they were finally defeated. But after all, there was a person who took the blame. But the Weihe people were the first to be ambushed and defeated, so of course he blamed him.

"Father, the Han people are Huaihuang Army, I believe my father should know too. These Huaihuang Army defeated our vanguards in the wild. In the most important battle, ten thousand Huaihuang Cavalry ambushed three thousand vanguards from all the vanguards of Tieler. Did my father know the battle loss ratio of this battle?"

"I have all the vanguards in each unit, and the losses of the Han army are not clear yet, but they will definitely have suffered a great loss after eating our 3,000 cavalry. I guess they will lose one or two thousand people, because they are three times the ambush of our troops. If the number is equal, victory or defeat is still unpredictable." These days, Yi Shibo was busy fighting for the position of the coalition commander, busy summoning the troops and preparing for the food and grass to go south, etc. Although the news of the vanguard being destroyed by more than 3,000 cavalry had been long since been passed back, he only knew that the vanguard had lost half of his men, but he still did not know the price of the vanguard who had eaten half of his men. He just took it for granted that the vanguard had eaten more than 3,000 of his men. He must have suffered a great casualty.

The Yi Man laughed.

"What are you laughing at, aren't you?"

Yi Nan shook his head. "Of course not, father, I have received a precise report on the battle situation. The Weihe people were defeated in three hundred cavalry. The Han people had five hundred cavalry. As a result, Weihe was killed in battle, and the rest were captured, and none of the Han cavalry even died in battle."

"This is impossible!" Yi Shibo couldn't believe it and couldn't help but shout.

"Yes, when I first heard this news, I couldn't believe it, but I then carefully investigated it, and the final result was indeed like this. The Han people were 500 cavalry, the Weihe people 300 cavalry, and the Han people were quite cunning. They first arranged a team of several cavalry to rob the Weihe people on the way out of the camp and robbed them, luring them to pursue them, and then introduced an ambush circle. All 100 cavalry were gone, and none of the Han troops died. Then they persuaded the captive Weihe people and asked them to "escort" the captives of the Han people back to the camp, and they successfully entered the camp, and in the end they didn't even use the Han people to take action. As a result, the Weihe people who surrendered the Han people killed all the two hundred Weihe people who left behind."

"This, how is this possible!" Yi Shibo really couldn't accept such a result. "You must have believed some wrong information, it must be a rumor."

"It's not a rumor or a wrong message, but a fact. The fact is that the 300 Wei He underestimated the enemy and had no defense at all. As a result, all 300 people were missing, and the five hundred Han cavalry on the other side were not even killed in battle from beginning to end. In addition, father, look at the process of this battle. There are 500 Han cavalry in the Han people, which obviously surpassed the Wei He people, and the Wei He people underestimated the enemy and carelessly. In this case, if my father was the leader of this Han team, what would you do?"

"With more attacks less, the enemy underestimates the enemy without any preparation, so naturally he directly attacks the enemy camp and destroys them in one fell swoop."

Yi Nan had known that his father would have such an answer. In fact, he later carefully restored the entire Weihe people's battle process and came to a similar conclusion. If the tribes attacked the grassland, no matter which tribe they were, most of them would not be as troublesome as the Han people, luring the enemy in a twists and turns, they would kill them directly.

"Then father, think about it, if you command the attack, what would be the final result?"

Yi Shibo thought about it. If he had commanded five hundred cavalry to attack the 300 cavalry unprepared Wei He people, he would have won. However, even if such an attack was won, he would definitely not be able to destroy three hundred like the Han people, and there would be no casualties in the end. Not only him, he probably would have been able to command any other general, as long as he attacked directly, he would probably not be able to achieve zero casualties.

"In fact, there were no zero casualties in the Huaihuang army. When they finally attacked the camp, they were brought into the camp by the surrendered Weihe people. Then the surrendered Weihe people suddenly attacked and destroyed their tribesmen. The battle finally turned into the killing of Weihe people, and the Weihe people were all killed." The more carefully the Yinan studied, the more he admired the Huaihuang army. It was nothing great to defeat 300 people, but he could still fight so beautifully. In the end, there was no casualties. This was simply a miracle, but the Han people did it.

"Later, the Huaihuang cavalry fought against the three thousand Tielle vanguards. It was basically the same. The Han people set up ambushers to lure my Tielle vanguard into a trap, and finally raided and ambushed. Ten thousand vs. 3 thousand, and I lost all my three thousand vanguards, either dead or surrender, but Huaihuang cavalry. The final dead were not even over a hundred." Yi Nan's words even contained a hint of fear of the Huaihuang cavalry.

"And father, do you know that according to the reliable information I have received, in the face of the raid from the Huaihuang Han cavalry, the three thousand vanguard cavalry formed by our units actually collapsed and fled without even a single resistance. In the end, they were completely defeated in a short time, either dead or surrendered."

"This is impossible!" Yi Shibo didn't know what to make except exclaiming. He didn't want to admit that this was the fact, but he knew in his heart that his son would not joke with him about such a thing, but he really couldn't accept it. He could accept that the Han cavalry defeated the Tielle van, but it was only three hundred or three thousand. Even if the entire army was wiped out, it was not unacceptable to the fact that he had wiped out the three thousand cavalry of Mobei, which claimed to be a strong man. The other party had only a hundred casualties. What was even more difficult to accept was that the fierce and brave Tielle cavalry actually defeated and fled without any resistance, and then none of them ran away, and the entire army was still wiped out.

What is the courage of the Tiel soldiers? What caused them to fail to fight when facing the Han cavalry? He felt that he had encountered a very serious problem, a very serious problem.

"How many people know about this situation?" Yi Shibo asked seriously. He put down the meat-crawling knife in his hand. He no longer had the appetite to eat delicious roasted lamb.

"Apart from me, you only know this news now." Yi Nan's source of information was very special. After the battle of Bulong River, the other half of the left-behind striker only found out that he had lost his chasing forward. The scouts they sent out only saw the corpse mountains made of headless corpses on the battlefield, all of which were the corpses of those forwards, hundreds. Apart from the icebergs made of headless corpses, no other chasing forward was seen.

They finally reported to Yudujin Mountain that these 3,000 men and Wei He's three hundred cavalry were all killed in battle, but they only reported that these 3,300 men were killed in battle, but they failed to report how much the Sui army had paid to defeat them. Because of the battle of the Glacier, there was no survivor at all, and there were no bodies of the Sui army on the battlefield, so they could not know the result.

Yi Nan's intelligence has another source. After he went to Huaihuang last time, he saw the magic of Huaihuang. At the same time, he also secretly established an intelligence network in Huaihuang. Although there were not many people, there were also people in Wusha Castle. His intelligence was transmitted from the people in Wusha Castle. After the Sui army won the Buwuhe River, the spy quickly found out about the outcome of the battle. He immediately reported it to Yi Nan in surprise.

"This result can only end here and cannot spread out again. You know, I know, there can be no third person knowing." Yi Shibo said to his son seriously. Now everyone only knows that the forward has lost half of the loss, but they don't know that it will be defeated so badly. The losses of more than 3,000 people have not caused more than 100 casualties to the other party. If this news spreads, I am afraid that the morale of the Tieler tribes of Mobei will be depressed.

"Although I can guarantee that it will not spread, other leaders may wish to learn the result from other channels." Yi Nan said.

"No matter what, it's one day to keep it confidential."

Seeing that his mood was so worried, Yi Nan couldn't help but ask: "Our plan remains unchanged. Are we still going to march into Huaihuang?"

"This is the decision of the leaders of various divisions when the alliance was deliberating. Huaihuang had fought with our Tieledo division one after another. This time, we killed more than 3,000 of our forwards. This is a big feud. Now the divisions want to kill Huaihuang immediately and strait Huaihuang."

"Is it all snatching everything?" Yi Nan snorted a few coldly. He knew that Huaihuang's name was far away from the north of the world. Many tribes proposed to attack Huaihuang, all for the idea of ​​robbing a lot. "They were afraid that they had never thought that Huaihuang was not a bone that was easy to chew, nor was it a cowardly lamb."

Although Yi Shibo is the commander of the coalition forces, this is just a loose tribal coalition. He does not have much power and cannot do it at once. "As long as we are careful, with our current army, I believe we can still attack and destroy Huaihuang." Yi Shibo said.

"This idea is very dangerous." Yi Nan did not agree with his father's words at all. Fighting cannot be achieved by quantity.

"We can assemble this time, but we have assembled 100,000 troops. 100,000!" Yi Shibo raised his voice a little. The 100,000 soldiers and horses were all strong cavalry in Mobei. Even if the most elite only accounted for one-third, it was still an extremely powerful force. In his opinion, 100,000 cavalry could directly enter the Central Plains, attack Hedong Daibei or Youyan Land, and grab the special robbery. Even when facing the tall and strong fortresses in the Central Plains, their cavalry would not be good at siegeing the city, but if they just attacked the Huaihuang Castle hanging on the frontier, there should be no problem. Fighting on the flat grassland, who is the opponent of the Mobei cavalry even if Huaihuang has a city wall, those walls are mostly built on flat grasslands, lacking real dangerous places. Even if cavalry sieges are used to siege the city, it would not be too difficult.

Yi Nan shook his head helplessly. This time, the tribes took Datou and Du Lan to go south and chose Huaihuang as the primary target. First, because Huaihuang had attacked Tielou tribes several times, and second, because Huaihuang was rich. The leaders of each tribe were clamoring to destroy Huaihuang, one for revenge, and the other for robbery and wealth. However, although several of these tribes had been attacked by Huaihuang one after another and suffered great losses, they had not really inquired about Huaihuang's information, did not know the real situation of Huaihuang, nor did they understand the real strength of the enemy they were going to fight.

"Father, do you know how many soldiers and horses Huaihuang has?" Yi Nan asked directly.

"How many? Huaihuang, a newly-started small force in the frontier, can they have many soldiers even if they depend on the Sui Dynasty. I estimate that at most 20,000 to 30,000 people. If some young and strong people are recruited temporarily, they may be able to collect 50,000 people." Yi Shibo said.

Yi Nan stroked his forehead with his hand, feeling powerless. His father was a leader of a large tribe in the Tiel tribes, so he had a keen eye because he was close to the Central Plains. But when he said such words at this time, he could imagine what other Tiel leaders thought.

"Twenty thousand? Fifty thousand?" Yi Nan sneered speechlessly: "Father, if I told you that Huaihuang now has more than 100,000 troops, and the three Xishi Khitan tribes are also closely united around Huaihuang and will send troops to support at any time, would you believe it?"

"What!" Yi Shibo lost his voice again. (To be continued)
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